V. I. Lenin

Appeal To The Peasants Of The Ukraine

Written:4 July, 1921First Published:PravdaNo. 172, August 6, 1921; Published according to thePravdatext collated with the manuscriptSource:Lenin’sCollected Works, 1st English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965,Volume 32, page 503Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\HTML Markup:David Walters&R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marx.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of theGNU Free Documentation License

This year, the Ukraine, west of the Dnieper, has. had an
      excellent harvest. The workers and peasants in the
      famine-stricken Volga area, who are now suffering hardships only
      a little less severe than the dreadful calamity of 1891, look to
      the Ukrainian farmers for help. Help must come quickly. Help
      must be abundant. o farmer must refrain from sharing his surplus
      with the starving Volga peasants who have no seed with which to
      sow their fields.

Let every uyezd that is well supplied with grain send, say, two
      or three peasant delegates to the Volga to deliver the grain,
      and to see for themselves the terrible suffering, want and
      starvation, and tell their fellow-countrymen upon their return
      how urgently help is needed.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars,V. Ulyanov
      (Lenin)

August 2, 1921